Childhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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